affright ( gh mute)

(From the verb. In Fr. effroi.] 1. Fright, the emotion of fear suddenly inspired and rising to a considerable height. IMG:content-0246.png:[blocks in formation] "As one affright With hellish fiends, or furies made uprore, He then arose." Spenser: F. Q.. IL. v. 37. * af-fright-ěd-lý ( gh mute), adv. [AF- FRIGHTED.] In an affrighted manner; in a way to indicate fright. "The thunder of their rage and boistrous struggling make The neighbouring forests round offrightedly to quake." Drayton: Poly - Olbion , &. 12. * af-fright'-en ( gh mute) v.t. [In A.S. afyrhte = affrighted; from áfyrhtan = to frighten.] To frighten.